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Coast Guard Research and Development Center personnel test an unmanned maritime system near the Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the Arctic, July 29, 2017. The RDC tested the UMS and other unmanned systems that have the potential to be force multipliers for the Coast Guard, supplementing forces and providing increased maritime domain awareness in the Arctic. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Meredith Manning

Dec. 28, 2022

Coast Guard celebrates 50 years of research and development 

Coast Guard Research and Development Center (RDC) plans open house, new book, commemorative coin.

Chief Petty Officer Matt Shaw’s signature Brownie Toffee Bars, Jan. 2022. MyCG featured five culinary specialists (CSs) as part of a holiday menu for the Coast Guard community. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Chief Petty Officer Troy Shaw)

Dec. 28, 2022

Rounding out the MyCG Holiday Menu

A dessert recipe you don’t want to miss.

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Jake Flores, maritime enforcement specialist at Maritime Safety & Security Team Houston and 2022 USO Service Member of the Year honoree, beams during a ceremony in Houston, Texas, Dec. 1, 2022. Flores’s command nominated him for the award for jumping into the Rio Grande to save a drowning baby during a patrol on June 2, 2022. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Corinne Zilnicki)

Dec. 26, 2022

‘Heroic, humble’ Coast Guardsman selected as 2022 USO Service Member of the Year 

Putting others' lives before his own, a true Coast Guardsman

Flying Santa visiting Station Portsmouth Harbor (New Hampshire) in 2015. (Courtesy Friends of Flying Santa)

Dec. 23, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Lighthouses and the history of ‘The Flying Santa’

The Flying Santa, delivering gifts for more than 90 years.

The crew and science team aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy conclude a morale day with a cook out in the hangar Sept. 2, 2009. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Patrick Kelley)

Dec. 19, 2022

Military members will see an 11% increase in BAS for 2023

Both enlisted and officers will see a rise in their benefit beginning Jan. 1.

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) crew prepare to moor as the Stratton returned to homeport on Base Alameda, Calif., Nov. 23, 2022. Stratton recently concluded a 97-day multi-mission deployment to the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Sea. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin Upshaw).

Dec. 19, 2022

Special Duty Pay updates announced  

Read on about changes to the SDP/AP list.

Members from Station Eaton’s Neck, New York, review tactical procedures with Suffolk County, New York Police Department prior to clearing the ferry PT Barnum, during Sector Long Island Sound’s AMSTEP exercise in October 2022.

Dec. 19, 2022

Building partnerships through required area exercises to keep the port safe

Sector Long Island Sound and port partners exercises how to respond to an emergency on the water, put that plan to use! 

Ray Evans receiving his Navy Cross Medal for action seen at Point Cruz. Evans had already received a battlefield advancement to chief petty officer and later received an officer’s commission. (Coast Guard Collection)

Dec. 16, 2022

The Long Blue Line: Ray Evans—Hero of Guadalcanal who enlisted and served with Douglas Munro 80 years ago

Chief Ray Evans served with the Coast Guard’s only Medal of Honor recipient, and is now FRC namesake!

Chaplain Capt. David Morris speaks at an Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training shop at the Lowery A. Woodall Advanced Technology Center in Hattiesburg, Miss., on Jan. 25, 2017. Morris was one of three chaplains to speak to the group. Morris has been teaching at the ASIST shop since he commissioned. (Mississippi National Guard photo by Spc. Christopher Shannon, 102d Public Affairs Detachment)

Dec. 15, 2022

Members learn to teach peers about suicide intervention

Building a network of support through training to teach the skills to prevent suicide and intervene if needed.

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Dec. 13, 2022

Support Equipment Program marks its first anniversary 

Why equipment is the backbone of Coast Guard success